1st Place in WOOF for July 17th

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21 Jul 2009

I was happy that my Adamantium Lobster poem won first place in the Writers Offering Our Finest contest for July 17th. This story had a large number of random words and was a very fun story poem to write.  Congrats to Jenn and Zorlone who also placed in the Top 3 this week.

WOOF Contest – Top Picks

Poetry

Dragon Blogger – “The Adamantium Lobster” – A story poem about a lobsterman who finds a magical catch.

Jennifer M Scott – “Calm Bequeaths me Solitude” – A poem for my poetry challenge ‘For I light my candle”.

Zorlone – “Lamenting in darkness”“I feel anguished by the sad intensity of your poem. But it’s better to feel something than to be numb – as in frostbite.” – JenaIsle

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The Adamantium Lobster – Random Twitter Poem for July 10th

twitter poems
10 Jul 2009

This poem is more like a story even than “The Package” which I wrote yesterday, it just flowed that way and was not intentional. This is a story about a magical creature pulled from the sea was inspired by the 13 random words (in blue) from my twitter followers below:

@Zorlone (adamantium), @peglegpug (spike), @petergan (lobster), @KathrynVercillo (sunshine), @nicolaquinn (Rokeby), @BenSpark (jalapeno), @shemah (spawn), @JessRenH (zeitgeist), @CelebritiCat (diverge), @katheesue (pavilion), @starlingpoet (bunny hug), @LenaShaw (ecstatic), @heatherpro (progression)

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The Adamantium Lobster

In a time where the zeitgeist
was full of magic and progression
A day of sunshine well remembered
oddity caught with a spike trap
a spawn of the sea was found
a creature unlike any other
known as the adamantium lobster

The ecstatic lobsterman had a great plan
which the creature would soon diverge
the lobster pranced around like mad
as if trying to perform the bunny hug
it looked as if it were on display
at some Rokeby museum pavilion

Cutting its way through the trap
with armored claws harder than steel
The man made one last ditch attempt
a jalapeno colored net cast with a mighty zeal
this of course, a laughable approach

The net was torn, and the lobster free
escaping so simply amazingly rapidly
the man just blinked disbelievingly
as the creature returned into the sea

-Poem by Dragon Blogger

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